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Is this what baby moving feels like?

clcjmc wrote:

I've been reading descriptions of what the baby moving feels like, and I see things such as gas bubbles, which I am not feeling. I am 17.5 weeks. For the past few days or so, I've been feeling very slight pinching almost? It doesn't hurt but I wouldn't say it feels great either. I don't know how else to describe it. It's just quick bursts of pinching/pressure and then it goes away. I'm thinking it must be either the baby moving/kicking or just growing pains. For those who have had kids before, is this what the baby moving can feel like?

@clcjmc I'm wondering the same thing, because I've been feeling that too. Hope you get an answer!

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BrodysMom825

@clcjmc The only way that I can describe the feeling is flutters. At first it feels like butterflies but not in your belly, they're lower more below your belly button. Then once you get farther it literally feels like something moving, like being poked from the inside...it can't be mistaken for anything else. You'll know. What your describing could be the flutters or just growing/stretching pains. Usually you don't start feeling movement consistently until 19-22wks. GL!

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mel32250

I'm a first-timer, so no advice based on experience. I've been feeling that pinching too, and it's actually been getting pretty uncomfortable in just the past couple days. I thought mine was round ligament pain because it's more toward my hip bones and not in the middle where I've felt other kinds of movement (baby movement, I hope, although mine feels more like a marble rolling around inside my belly than gas :) ). Are you still feeling yours? I get worried because it sometimes hurts, but I guess that's normal too.Â

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SassySmurfy

I think you might be feeling round ligament pain. It's basically growing pains. I've felt the same thing, just a quick little pinch. Sometimes it's a pain that starts just below my belly button and shoots down into my groin region, but it's super fast, only a few seconds. Enough to take me by surprise. I just barely started feeling the baby. It's so cute, I can tell when he's awake. Probably not all the time, but I know I do feel him. I don't feel kicks or pokes yet, but I do feel a rolling motion across my lower abdomen. It's totally different from the ligament pain. I'm just over 18 weeks, and I think I've only been feeling the baby for about 3 or 4 days now. Good luck and hopefully it's your baby telling you hi! :)

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HeatherFletcher79

@clcjmc I don't think the pinching is the baby moving, maybe something stretching in there instead. The pressure on the other hand might be something. It'll feel like somebody is running their finger lightly across your stomach or you'll just feel something tickling.

When the baby moves this early it shouldn't hurt or be uncomfortable (later it may be... :0). It's little flutters almost like a tap from the inside.... it's so weird but once you know... you know. I am 17 1/2 weeks and have felt baby a couple times in the last 5 mins. (this is my second child.) Its such an amazing feeling.... it really makes it so much more real. Good luck to you!

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ileana2011

@clcjmc I started by feeling the baby rolling and now I am actually playing with my baby by poking her and she pokes back. She pokes so hard it still scares me every single time. I figured out she pokes when looking for the heartbeat with a doppler. I would push the doppler a bit too hard in my abdomen and she would push it back (maybe she is rolling away and not pushing back on purpose). I am only in week 16 but this is my third baby and also I hardly have any fat cushion on my stomack. The doc said the mixture is most likely why I am able to feel the baby so soon. I also feel flutters after eating something sweet.

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sweetiejenn

@clcjmc I'm having those "pains" too. I figured it was ligament stretching.

My movements never felt like pinching. They shouldn't be uncomfortable. I always said that mine feels like a muscle twitch. Have you ever had an involuntary twitch in your arm or leg for a few seconds? Mine feels like that without the rhythm to it. Infact, once when I wasn't pregnant, I felt a muscle twitch in my belly, and it felt like a baby! For the splittest second, I forgot that I wasn't pregnant! LOL!

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